Basically he says it's not appropriate for her to be showing her belly and legs (because in Traviss' books Ahsoka only wears the miniskirt, not the white tights) on a military ship. He gives her a jumpsuit and tells her to go change and then asks Rex if Skywalker thinks he runs a cruise line. Rex has to seal his helmet and laugh.

Did the early concept art for Ahsoka have her in tights? I think the book was written before the start of the cartoon itself since book publishing tends to run about a year ahead. ISTR early pictures of her without the tights.*

Even with the tights, the ship was still being actively worked on, and I think Pellaeon was taking issue with the dangers of exposed flesh and non-regulation uniforms around machinery, sparks from welding, and whatever else come with being on a ship still being refitted.

*I just made the mistake of doing a Google Image search to try and offer a more informed opinion and now I feel skeevy. Come on! I wasn't even aiming for the weird part of the internet!

Luke accepts exile in a demonstration of the Jedi Order's humility and responsibility, allowing the Council to develop out of his shadow, and takes off on a father-son-bonding road trip to meet and learn from the more esoteric Force traditions while Han, Leia, their granddaughter and the droids vacation on (that is, save) Kessel with a bunch of old friends; with the Big Three out of their hair, the Jedi confront an outbreak of highly specific insanity within their number, setting in motion both an intriguing mystery and a complex centrepiece to the vital and surely inevitable re-negotiation of the Jedi Order-Galactic Alliance relationship; all in all, after the sound and fury of Legacy of the Force, Outcast sets Fate of the Jedi on course to be a smaller, more personal series that intelligently explores the preceding melodrama's aftermath and grants the next generation space to grow into heroes capable of standing on their own two feet -- what can possibly go wrong?

"This time, it's going to be different -- I know it will," Aaron Allston breathed in the tones of a man pleading with reality, "because my co-authors can't completely ruin my unexpectedly good job of salvaging their misguided premises with a reasonably promising opening novel twice in a row . . . can they?"

Luke Skywalker, hero of the galaxy, leader of the Jedi is made an outcast by war criminal,terrorist, criminal, murderess, Chief of State Daala and goes on a journey to follow Jacen's steps that quickly goes off the railes and sets off a chain of events including a Planet of Sith, weird extraterrestrial being less cool than Waru,forced The Clone Wars tie ins, and slaves.

The list of problems with the premise of this novel/series (Daala as Chief of State, Luke being kicked off Coruscant by Daala, young Jedi being focused on only so they can go crazy and traumatize parents such as Mirax Terrik, that ludicrous scene where Luke "negotiates" his exile, etc.) would probably be longer than this first novel.

"This time, it's going to be different -- I know it will," Aaron Allston breathed in the tones of a man pleading with reality, "because my co-authors can't completely ruin my unexpectedly good job of salvaging their misguided premises with a reasonably promising opening novel twice in a row . . . can they?"

Is it being charitable to call both Betrayal and Outcast promising, or am I overly cynical?

Do we have a dislike button? I want to dislike Hav's straw-grasping Allston apologizing. He knows damn well this book was terrible and not at all promising. Anyway, my entry:

How to write an awful book that kicks off a nine-volume series with dragged out, pointless plots that will have no effect on anything that comes later; no actual villains; a genocidal war criminal written as a sympathetic character; and nothing at all to get the reader excited about the next eight books... 101.